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  • Annual Declaration Project

    The Abu Dhabi Pension perform the process of annual declaration on yearly basis by communicating all pensioners/beneficiaries members in order to visit the Abu Dhabi Pension headquarter and to recognize their confirmation to the terms of eligibility (or not) and to provide the required documents from the courts, health authorities, universities and others entities.

  • ISIC Standardizing the ISSO Economic Activities Data

    Changing data coding in any field would directly or indirectly result in improvement in service quality, growth of financial resources and reduction of services’ fixed prices, if there is a defined standard. Statistical classifications are standard frameworks for presenting economic analyses and reliable measure for reviewing labour market and calculating the economic factors regarding the demography, production and human resources.

  • Establishment & Operation of Workers’ Health Center to Promote Health for Vulnerable Group of Workers

    KOSHA has established 42 Workers’ Health Center nationwide to provide professonal and complimentary health services for workers at workplace with less than 50 employees, who show higher prevalence of diseases based on health examinations and work under poorer environment prone to expose to more harmful factors. The services provided by the centers are health examination/consultation, work stress prevention and exercise prescription performed by professional manpower such as occupational and environmental medicine doctors, nurses, and clinical counsellors.

  • Embracing a Culture of Governance and Compliance - The Ambitious Aims of the Public Institution for Social Security

    Responding to global urges for increased awareness in the fields of Governance and Compliance, in 2015, the Public Institution for Social Security (“PIFSS”) or the (“Institution”) devised an ambitious plan to not only introduce the first Governance or Compliance functions in the local government sector, but to set ahead an ambitious and innovatively disruptive strategy to strive for industry leading practice in both fields. The modern global regulatory environment is challenging, and ever-evolving.

  • Touching Hearts, Changing Lives, with One-to-One Retirement Planning at the Heartlands

    The Central Provident Fund Board sought to help Singaporeans reaching age 55 understand our schemes and policies better, so that they can be more prepared as they approach retirement.

    To do so, we created a new personalised face-to-face retirement planning service to educate Singaporeans and brought our services to the heartlands.

    We measure the success of this new service based on the Singaporeans’ increased understanding of their retirement options and the likelihood of them recommending the service to other Singaporeans.

  • #ICanAdult

    #ICanAdult was a digital campaign by the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board. It aimed to reach out and pique the millennials’ interest on the benefits of planning for the future. To achieve this, the Board deployed its strategy to tailor and deliver content that is simple and relatable, and thus relevant to their lives. We leveraged on the trend of “adulting”—where millennials share their struggles of taking on adult responsibilities on social media—in a bid to create a movement to turn the conversation around from avoiding adult responsibilities to #ICanAdult.

  • Pre-recruitment Medical Examinations

    Performing pre-recruitment medical examinations or performing it during the first year of employment of the worker is necessary to assess the physical and mental capacity of the worker. In this regard: 1- The medical booklets of all of the main insured are issued with the validity of 2 month to make them undergo the medical examinations. 2- All the main insured persons with less than 1 year of employment and contribution payment in the last workplace who apply for receiving short-term liabilities shall undergo medical examinations or their situation in this regard shall be determined.

  • Consolidating and Summarizing Circulars

    Social Security Law of Iran was enacted in 1977, but its circulars are very outspread and complicated. For solving this problem, we have planned a project in order to consolidate the existing circulars. For this purpose, we have created a main consoliding council and 40 workgroups. Until now, we have summarized and consolidated approximmately 500 circulars into 10 summarized and consolidated circulars

  • Family Protection Plan

    According to the law on “Family Protection” which came into force in April 2013, if the widow(es) of a deceased insured man gets/get married, her/their entitlement to survivors benefit wouldn’t cease anymore, and the benefit that has been stopped for that reason could be awarded again from the abovementioned date

  • Insurance Coverage Extension to Female-headed Households

    Regarding the provisions on insurance coverage extension to female-headed households which are supported by “Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation” (IKRF) and “State Welfare Organization”(SWO) with the aim of reducing poverty and avoiding social injuries, the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) launched to provide the self-employed insurance coverage to the above-mentioned households since 2011, in the case of being introduced by relevant protective entities (IKRF & SWO).

  • Health knowledge promotion of pensioners

    Training workshops on common diseases in ageing period of life-cycle Ageing trend as a reality of the society is attracting attention in many countries. As regards the emerging health care necessities of the ageing population, the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) has designed and implemented a plan including training workshops to improve knowledge of its pensioners who are mostly over 60, and also enable them to be more active and sensible to their health status.

  • Old-age Pension Coverage Extension

    The insured people who are 60 years old (for men) or 55 (for women) with at least 10 years of contribution payment, can receive adjusted benefits according to the years of contribution. Those with less than 10 years of past contribution years can pay the difference and become eligible to reduced pension benefit. Similarly, those who are recognized as disabled by pertinent authorities but were not eligible to receive the disability pension benefit, by paying the difference up to 10 year-contribution, would be eligible to receive reduced disability benefit with no age requirements

  • GSMA and W20 call on G20 Summit to close the digital gender gap

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    information-age (06.06.2018) GSMA and W20 have advanced a series of proposals ahead of G20 Summit in the hope of closing the digital gender gap.

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  • Freelance Work Program

    The General Organization for Social Insurance "GOSI" in Saudi Arabia broadly covers workers in private sector and a group of workers in public sector who are not covered by the Public Pension Agency "PPA". GOSI has a strategic objective, which is to enhance participation and coverage in insurance schemes, and this is aligned with the Saudi Vision 2030 to reduce unemployment rates, enhance practical experiences of the youth and encourage them to explore freelance work.

  • Unemployment Insurance program “SANED”

    As part of its vision and strategy, the General Organization for Social Insurance “GOSI” recognized the need to find a program that protects workers in the private sector from the risk of being unemployed due to circumstances beyond their control, which would lead to some negative social, economic and psychological effects. The Unemployment Insurance Law “SANED” has been approved by royal decree and launched in 2014. SANED provides: • A monthly source of income during the transition period between the previous job and the chance to get a new job.

  • Social Dialogue & Public Awareness

    Improving the public awareness of different groups of society on social security concepts, social security law, as well as benefits and services of the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) has always been one of the main concerns of the ISSO. Accordingly, development of cultural communication and establishment of social dialogue between the ISSO and educational centers of the country came in to one of the priorities of related departments of the ISSO.

  • Recreative Program for the Old-age Pensioners

    The Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) launched the recreative sports program called “Nasim-e-Salamt” (means Blowing of Health) in 2014, in conformity with the motto of the World Health Day 2012: “Good health adds life to years”, for the ISSO pensioners in two categories: 1- Public sports. 2- Organizing cultural-sportive championships. The program is targeted to promote the physically exercise spirit among old-age pensioners in order to improve their health status as well as preventing the typical old-age diseases.

  • Electronic Admission of the Patients

    One of the main tasks of the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) is providing the contributors with health services whether directly (through the ISSO owned health centers) or indirectly (through the health contractors). With regard to the increasing demand of health services and emerged problems in this field, especially in the process of patients admission to visit doctors and other service providers (laboratory, radiology and …) in the ISSO owned health centers, the ISSO decided to keep pace with technology and offer e-admission to the patients.

  • Elimination of Overlapped Insurance Recoreds

    Eliminating the overlaps of insurance periods for those with at least two simultaneous insurance relation in the same period of time (at least one day) in different insurance branches of the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) is implemented to prevent illegal receiving of one benefit and also to promote quality, effectiveness and efficiency of the social security services focused on registration and individual accounts section.

  • Communication Measures with Social Partners

    According to the ISSA guidelines on communication, the social security organizations need to prepare correct channels to have effective relation with social partners. To meet these increasingly important need and because of lack of effective channels, Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) developed the plan of “Comprehensive Communication System” in 2015. More than 42 million people covered by the ISSO are in a widespread range of educational, cultural, socio-economic, income and age levels.

  • Outsourcing the Insurance Services

    In recent years, several issues such as environmental evolution, uncertainty about future, costs increase, expansion of the organizations and legal constrains have made the organizations to change their paradigm. In this regard, the preliminary idea of outsourcing the social security services was introduced by the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) in 1995 in order to prevent the expansion of executive sectors of the ISSO, decreasing the administrative and staffing costs, facilitating and accelerating the insured and employers affairs to increase the social partners satisfaction.

  • Iranian social security e-services

    Regarding the vision of Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO), based on developing e-services, aiming at minimizing in-person visits and providing the clients with internet based services, after consulting with lots of experts and pundits, a package of different services in different sectors were prepared and gradually offered to the beneficiaries. Initially, some of them were introduced as a trial plan in miniature scale in selected ISSO insurance branches and then were completed and handed in after improvement.